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Kansas Nebraska Act Resolved: The Kansasnebraska Act Was Fair - 369 words
Kansas & Nebraska Act Resolved: The
Kansas-Nebraska Act Was Fair. The Kansas-Nebraska
act was a proposal by Sen. Stephen A. Douglas
which said that Kansas and Nebraska territory
could be allowed to govern for itself whether or
not to be a slave state or a free state. By a vote
of its residents the territories would become a
slave or a free state.This caused many fights
between Northerners and Southerners. As a result
many people were killed. This act was fair because
it gave the majority of the population the choice.
This would be better because if the government
just said that the land was a free state the
people who had slaves would have to move out of
their state and travel to a slave sta ...
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The Development Of Dorothythe Movie The Wizard Of Oz Opens On A Farm In Kansas The Lead Character Is A Twelveyearold Girl Nam - 1,226 words
The Development of DorothyThe movie "The Wizard of
Oz" opens on a farm in Kansas. The lead character
is a twelve-year-old girl named Dorothy. Dorothy
exists in a world limited by aged beliefs and
fears, which make up a great part of her reality.
In Kansas, Dorothy is a twelve-year-old girl, with
twelve-year-old needs and emotions. I feel that
the movie is a device by which we can analyze
Dorothy in all states of mind, her conscious,
pre-conscious, and unconscious. I believe that
Sigmund Freuds principles on the structure of
personality and dreaming will aid in understanding
Dorothys growth, wants, and needs. Dorothy in her
conscious state struggles to be heard and
understood. She is distress ...
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1994 Baseball Strike - 1,617 words
1994 Baseball Strike On August 12, 1994
professional baseball players went on strike for
the eighth time in the sports history. Since 1972,
negotiations between the union and owners over
contract terms has led to major economic problems
and the absence of a World Series in 1994. All
issues were open for debate due to the expiration
of the last contract. Until 1968, no collective
bargaining agreement had ever been reached between
the owners and the players (Dolan 11). Collective
bargaining is the process by which union
representatives for employees in a bargaining unit
negotiate employment conditions for the entire
bargaining unit (Atlantic Unbound). Instead, the
players were at the mercy of ...
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A Gold Rush Leads To War - 1,304 words
A Gold Rush Leads to War A Gold Rush Leads to War
The American Civil War (1861-1865) and the
Reconstruction period that followed were the
bloodiest chapters of American history to date.
Brother fought brother as the population was split
along sectional lines. The issue of slavery
divided the nation's people and the political
parties that represented them in Washington. The
tension which snapped the uneasy truce between
north and south began building over slavery and
statehood debates in California. In 1848, settlers
discovered gold at Sutter's Mill, starting a mass
migration. By 1849, California had enough citizens
to apply for statehood. However, the debate over
whether the large western st ...
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Aaron Douglas - 1,128 words
Aaron Douglas People may ask, what other than a
tornado can come out of Kansas? Well, Aaron
Douglas was born of May 26, 1899 in Topeka,
Kansas. Aaron Douglas was a "Pioneering
Africanist" artist who led the way in using
African- oriented imagery in visual art during the
Harlem Renaissance of 1919- 1929. His work has
been credited as the catalyst for the genre
incorporating themes in form and style that affirm
the validity of the black consciousness and
experience in America. His parents were Aaron and
Elizabeth Douglas. In 1922, he graduated from the
University of Nebraska School of Fine Arts in
Lincoln. Who thought that this man would rise to
meet W.E.B. Du Bois's 1921 challenge, calling fo ...
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Abe Lincoln - 1,112 words
... him from the chores Lincoln attended ABC
school.10 This is where Lincoln learned to become
a hard worker. Lincolns working days started in
1831. Abe and his brother were hired to build a
boat and float it down the Mississippi with a load
of cargo on it. The boat was headed towards New
Orleans and this is where Lincoln saw his first,
but not last, slave auction. Lincoln is quoted in
saying, if I ever got a chance to hit that thing,
I would hit it hard. 11 Lincoln was not in favor
of slavery but he was certainly to abolitionist.
Lincolns career in politics began in the spring of
1832, when Lincoln was 23, he ran for a seat on
the Illinois House of Representatives. In his
campaign, Lincoln ...
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Abraham Lincoln - 1,920 words
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln was born on
February 12, 1809 in Kentucky. When he was two,
the Lincolns moved a few miles to another farm on
the old Cumberland Trail. A year later, his mother
gave birth to another boy, Thomas, but he died a
few days later. When Lincoln was seven his family
moved to Indiana. In 1818, Lincolns mother died
from a deadly disease called the "milk-sick." Then
ten years later his sister died and left him with
only his father and stepmother. Lincoln traveled
to New Salem in April 1831 and settled there the
following July. In the fall of 1836 he and Mrs.
Bennett Abell had a deal that if she brought her
single sister to New Salem he had to promise to
marry her. When ...
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Abraham Lincoln - 1,117 words
Abraham Lincoln Abraham Lincoln, the 16th
president of the United States, guided his country
through the most devastating experience in its
national history--the Civil War. He is considered
by many historians to have been the greatest
American president. Early Life Lincoln was born on
Feb. 12, 1809, in a log cabin in Hardin (now
Larue) County, Ky. Indians had killed his
grandfather, Lincoln wrote, "when he was laboring
to open a farm in the forest" in 1786; this
tragedy left his father, Thomas Lincoln, "a
wandering laboring boy" who "grew up, litterally
[sic] without education." Thomas, nevertheless,
became a skilled carpenter and purchased three
farms in Kentucky before the Lincolns left th ...
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Abraham Lincoln - 1,088 words
... in acceptance of the Republican senatorial
nomination (June 16, 1858) Lincoln suggested that
Douglas, Chief Justice Roger B. Taney, and
Democratic presidents Franklin Pierce and James
Buchanan had conspired to nationalize slavery. In
the same speech he expressed the view that the
nation would become either all slave or all free:
"A house divided against itself cannot stand." The
underdog in the senatorial campaign, Lincoln
wished to share Douglas's fame by appearing with
him in debates. Douglas agreed to seven debates:
in Ottawa, Freeport, Jonesboro, Charleston,
Galesburg, Quincy, and Alton, Ill. Lincoln knew
that Douglas--now fighting the Democratic Buchanan
administration over the cons ...
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Accounting And Auditing Processes - 895 words
Accounting and Auditing Processes Justin Denman
Accounting and Auditing Processes March 4, 2000
Writing Assignment #1 Revenue Recognition Policies
The purpose of this paper is to compare the
revenue recognition policies of two companies in
the search, detection, navigation, guidance, and
aeronautical systems industry. The two companies I
have selected are Aerosonic Corporation, and Esco
Electronics Company. Esco Electronics Company is
engaged in the design, manufacture, sale and
support of engineered products. These products are
used principally in filteration/fluid flow
applications, electromagnetic compatibility (EMC)
testing, and electric utility communications and
control systems. The fi ...
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Affirmative Action - 1,744 words
... from the same communities as their students
they will be aware of the problems facing their
community and that of their students, that way
they can better help theses kids, than someone
that lives outside of the children The community
and has no idea of the problems they are facing.
In 1984 their were seventy-one women professors
out of 1,112 (6.4 per cent). They were not
however, evenly distributed across subjects and
departments, but were concentrated in
conventionally female areas. Three out of five
professors of library science are women, and five
out of seven professors or nursing. Women are also
notable represented in education ( seven out of
forty-nine professors) and social work ...
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Against Capital Punishment - 1,191 words
... uggests that rather than deterring homicide,
state executions may actually increase the murder
rate. This phenomenon has been named the
brutalization hypothesis. It suggests that through
suggestion, modeling, or by legitimizing killing,
homicide numbers increase. In a study taken from
1957 to 1982 by Isaac Ehrlich, the number of
executions in 1957 was 65 and the number of
murders was 8,060. From 1958 to1960 the execution
rate stayed roughly the same, but the murder rate
increased (Bender& Leone, 1986, p. 99-100) (Vila &
Morris, 1997, p.223). Throughout the remainder of
the study the execution rate dropped and the
murder rate continued to increase. In 1981 the
murder rate was at 22,520 a ...
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Allies For Freedom - 1,499 words
Allies For Freedom Introduction The reason I
choose "Allies For Freedom" is because I am very
interested in slaves and how they gained their
freedom. I also wanted to learn about the famous "
john brown" and everything this man did to change
history. This book looked interesting to me
because it covers not only just john brown but
also other allies for the slaves. I wanted to see
the different views of the people during slavery.
This book also interested me because I knew he was
raised in Ohio and I thought to relate to his
views from being born and raised in Ohio also.
This is a very important subject in history.
Slavery changed American history and how we view
things today. This book helps ...
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Although Musicians Had Been Recording Fiddle Tunes Known As Old Time Music At That Time In The - 4,509 words
... ves' career. In 1959, Reeves recorded his
all-time greatest hit, "He'll Have to Go." The
theme was familiar enough. Some years earlier it
might have been called a honky-tonk song. But the
treatment, with Reeves' dark, intimate, velvet
tones gliding over a muted backing, was something
different again. The result brought him instant
stardom. During the early 1960s, he also continued
to dominate the US country charts, with hits
including Guilty (1963), and "Welcome to My World"
(1964). Tragically, on a flight back to Nashville
from Arkansas on July 31, 1964, Jim and his
manager ran into heavy rain just a few miles from
Nashville's Beery Field and crashed, killing both
men. Voted into the Co ...
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Amelia Earhart - 1,195 words
Amelia Earhart Amelia Mary Earhart was born on
July 24, 1897 in Atchison, Kansas. She was the
daughter of a railroad attorney and had a younger
sister named Muriel. Amelia was a tomboy and was
always interested in learning. She was educated at
Columbia University and Harvard Summer School. She
taught English to immigrant factory workers.
During World War I, Amelia was a volunteer in a
Red Cross hospital. Amelia heard of a woman pilot,
Neta Snook, who gave flying lessons. She had her
first lesson on January 2, 1921. On July 24, 1921,
Amelia bought her first plane, a prototype of the
Kinner airplane and named it "The Canary." In
1928, she accepted the invitation of the American
pilots Wilmer S ...
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Amelia Earhart - 878 words
Amelia Earhart Amelia Earhart is one of the worlds
greatest aviators, heroes, women, and all around
person. She wasn't afraid of the things people
said about Women not being aviators. She broke the
stereo type boundaries and let the world know that
she was not afraid of being a one of the best
aviators of our time. Amelia was born in her
grandparents house on July 24,1897. Her Father
Edwin Earhart was working for a law practice in
Kansas city during this time. Amelia didn't know
that 2 1/2 years later she would have a sister
named Muriel with the nickname Pidge. Amelia and
Pidge were born into a life of privilege through
their grandparents. They both attended a private
school and took pleasu ...
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American Civil Liberties Union - 681 words
American Civil Liberties Union American Civil
Liberties Union The American Civil Liberties Union
is an organization which takes on the issues of
concern to the American public and any violations
of their rights, or liberties, including
discrimination. I turned to their web site for
information regarding their activity. The
following information is from the summary of their
work in 1999. Although it's two years old, I feel
it paints an accurate picture of the ACLU, their
work, and what they stand for. Teen Mothers in
National Honor Society In the spring of 1998, two
18 year old teen mothers were barred from
admission into the National Honor Society(NHS)
based on the fact that they'd had prema ...
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American Dream Freedom - 1,276 words
American Dream Freedom What was the dream that
brought our ancestors to America? It was rebirth,
the craving for men to be born again, the yearning
for a second chance. With all of these ideas comes
the true American dream - Freedom. This is the
condition in which a man feels like a human being.
It is the purpose and consequence of rebirth.
Throughout the life of Langston Hughes he
presented ideas in his writings that help to
define his perception of the American dream.In
beginning, Langston Hughes was born on February 1,
1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His father was James
Nathaniel Hughes, a man who studied law but was
unable to take the examination for the bar because
he was black. His mother ...
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